TBT: The Scion Exile Was All About You and Your Whip

Toyota might have offed the Scion brand, but they can’t kill what’s already happened. For today’s throwback, we take a look at one of Scion’s earliest design studies. Back in 2005 the theme of the L.A. Auto Show Design Challenge was simple: “An L.A. Adventure.” Scion’s answer was complex.

With the help of the Matt Sperling and the Toyota Calty Design Research design studio, the Scion Exile was born through a series of sketches and digital renderings with a more selfish desire in mind. Set on Thursday, February 3, 2036, the extremely stereotypical LA scene in the third image showed the concept hitting the snow in the morning, going to the beach in the afternoon, and darting between building in the city at night. Scion laid the name out like this:

Entry Level
X‘perimental
Integrated
Los Angeles
Exotic

Wow, high-level thinking there … Regardless of the silly attempt at an acronym, the name fits the designers’ intentions for the car a little better. This car is aimed for somebody who doesn’t mind going on adventures alone.

“Scion has developed a reputation from creating vehicles targeted at a young social demographic,” the image says. “The Scion Exile acts as more of the black sheep of the brand family. Targeting the individualist who just wants to escape, anywhere. The Exile focuses more on you and your stuff rather than you and your friends. Leave them behind, this is your ride to enjoy.”

The car cuts out any room for passengers and fills that space with a trunk that doubles as a “removable cargo pod.” Basically, you could pull it out and use it as roller luggage. One of the sketches also shows that you could remove the face of the vehicle.

Anybody else see the rear 3/4 from this in the tC?

[Via SeriousWheels]